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Wanjiru Wanjiru — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wan-JEE-roo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Kikuyu (Gikuyu and Mumbi's daughters)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Kikuyu)

A name that means "kikuyu (gikuyu and mumbi's daughters)".

Wanjiru is from the Kikuyu Wanjiru — one who is associated with the Anjiru clan — one of the nine daughters of the Kikuyu founding ancestors Gikuyu and Mumbi. Wanjiru is one of the Kikuyu feminine clan names — central to traditional Kikuyu cultural heritage. Kikuyu feminine clan name.

Kikuyu Anjiru clan daughter (Kenyan).

The name in its native script.

Wanjiru
Transliteration
Wanjiru
Pronunciation
/ wɑːnˈdʒiː.ruː /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Wanjiru stands.

Wanjiru does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Wanjirus before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Wanjiru
Kikuyu Anjiru clan founding daughter.

Names connected to Wanjiru.

The number behind Wanjiru.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wanjiru reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.